Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-07-15
THEY CAN SEE NO DANGER.

There are people in this land of free
schools and novel reading who seem to
be exercised over the Henry George the
ory of the land question. Yet they can
see no danger or anything wrong in the
theory of the Government giving away
millions of the public domain to railroad
and home and foreign syndicates, while
at the same time the party platforms of
both parties say to the people that they
are not in faver of such proceeding.
They can see no danger in county Of
ficials forming close corporation with
the bench and har-both bars-and a
syndicate of Shylocks to place taxes up
on farm property that within few years
has transferred hundreds of farms from
those who have dug them out of the
wilderness to the possession of the Shy
locks who attend the conventions and
control the machinery of your elections
and smuggle through laws for that
which is worse robbery than that conf
mitted by any band of highwaymen.
They can see no danger to free speech
and free press when these same dema-
gogues and cut throats buy up the pur-
chasable and boycott and in every form
imaginable endeavor to destroy those
whom they can not control and by such
means cut off all communication
through which the people might get in
formation that would enlighten them
regarding the manner in which they are
being robbed.
They can see no danger in three men,
called Commissionels-who only give a
bond of $4,000 each-issuing $135, 900 in
bonds in one year, with the taxes al
ready up to the full extent allowed by
law, and then have the cheek las a
blind) to ask your @ Representative in
the Legislature for bill to enable them
to add $40, 600 more to this burthen.
They can see no danger when this
money is unaccounted for in the Com
missioners annual report.
They can see no danger when one oi
these Commissioners whom many of the
voters laid aside party preferences tc
elect to aid in checking these wholesale
robberies--but who completely sold
them out the first year and doubled the
dose on them-now 'induced" to take 6
position at the head of the labor move,
ment in the county to head off any NOV,
that might lead to breaking up the com
bination of robbers,
They can see no danger when the
Secretary of this Board sometimes called
Auditor, who was groomed for the posi-
tion for three or four years before elect
ed, put in claim for such valiant ser.
vices to the Authorship of the great
State of Ohio.
They can see no danger to the reputa.
tion of the once great Republican party
when this same Auditor, six years ago
without means, now with an abundance
of fascination to secure the active CO
operation of about half of the Democratic
saloon keepers OF the county, the Demo
cratic press of Toledo, the Republican
Central Committee of Wood county,
chosen" representatives of the party
interests-while the editor of the GazetL
(who is one of these) tells us he cam
get delegate even from his own town
ship.
They can see no danger when tn,
robbed taxpayers get to hunting through
the records of the Auditors office fo
the original papers in ditch case, fai
to find them, but find a $4,000 error in
favor of the Auditors office in a $4, ,0Ot
account, and this same Auditor take
occasion to glide past one of the NOR,
prominent injured taxpayers who wa,
getting things down too fine to he com
Portable and slaps him on the thigl
with the back of his hand and asks il
an undertone "what will you take t
let up?' and this same injured taxpay
er, after some hard riding and inter
views from parties at the ferrysburI
end OF the doubletree decides "to let up
and take position as member of tn
Board of Commissioners, if he coul,
get i'--there is no danger,to be seen il
that.
But If the people will demand an in
vestigation of county affairs and hay,
The nerve to sec that they get an inves
tigation that investigates, there is grea
danger that II the office that goes il
search OF the man will find him, goot
mony of him, under barns over in Can
ada. And the office that finds hin
there will be doing an excellent thinl
Tor the good name of the old Republican
party.